September 2, 2010 – 1:36 pm
After undergoing the nation’s third double hand-transplant two weeks ago, a 55-year-old Oklahoma man is curling his fingers and making half a fist.
“I feel fantastic,” Richard Edwards Jr., a chiropractor, told reporters after a brief demonstration. “I’m feeling very blessed and thankful for having a new pair of hands,”
What does he said he looks [...]
A nurse laughs next to “Rafael”, the first face transplant patient in Andalusia during a press conference they held after he was discharged from the Virgen del Rocio hospital in Seville, southern Spain on Tuesday (May 4).
This is the second facial tissue transplant done in Spain and the ninth worldwide.
The surgery was carried [...]
A nail which has been removed from a man’s kidney, where it had been for 20 years, at the Henan Provincial Coal General Hospital in Zhengzhou, central China’s Henan province.
Gao, 41, was sent to hospital for emergency treatment after passing out. CAT scans showed that Gao had a metal object in his [...]
Conjoined twins Emma and Taylor Bailey strike a pose at home in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Bailey twins share a heart and a liver, when they were born they were only expected to live for 15 minutes.
Doctors told the couple, who have six children, that their lungs would rush their heart from the moment they [...]
February 1, 2010 – 5:39 pm
Above are x-rays taken yesterday (January 31) of Xiao Rong of Chongqing, China, who has a severely twisted spine.
The 14-year-old is to receive surgery to correct her snake-shaped spine this February at Xinqiao Hospital.
Xiao developed a twisted spine when she was just 9-years-old.
“My grandmother found my shoulders are not on the same [...]
January 28, 2010 – 4:27 pm
Xiao Lin of Phoenix village, Hechuan, Chongqing in the local Children’s hospital after he coughed up an ‘alien’ object on January 13.
The 3-year-old boy was hospitalized in the afternoon, and in the evening he had a fierce coughing fit, and something was coughed out from his throat,” said his father Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan [...]